Using A Strong & Complex Password Is Important
The authentication technology to protect confidential and personal information has evolved over the years. There are now options to choose from on how to protect and how to access the information we’re keeping from unauthorized access. There are authentication processes such as biometric fingerprint scanning, iris scanning, face unlocks, and two-factor authentication to name a […]
Changing Password Is Necessary And Here’s Why
Password is used to secure your account or any confidential information to avoid any breach and danger concerning your identity. Criminals and/or hackers can use your personal information for identity theft. And you don’t want that to happen, right? When a password has been exposed, the usual scenario is not good because your identity, personal […]
Are You Using A VPN?
Millions of Americans have been spending more time at home recently and chances are you reading this have as well. Some of you may have been fortunate enough to be able to do your job from home and have not been completely out of luck when it comes to employment during this COVID-19 pandemic. If […]
What Is Better: Complex Passwords Or A Passphrase?
As we enter the third decade of the 2000s the password is still king when it comes to securing online accounts. Using a strong password can be the only thing that prevents your account from being hacked but for many people they are too hard to remember. Of course one option for that is to […]
Worst Passwords of the 2010 Decade
The 2010 and its decade are now over and you will undoubtedly see many retrospectives as we begin a new decade. Some of these are for some laughs and some of these are to show just how far we’ve come (or haven’t come) in a particular area. This is one of them. The password’s days […]
Could Your Mind Be Your Password?
The password’s days are numbered. It has been strengthened with the use of Multi-Factor Authentication but in the end that too will not be enough. Technology already exists to use our own biometrics as fingerprint readers are commonly included in many of our handheld devices. What comes after that may be the most secure method […]
Don’t Get Infected By Clipsa!
If you have a website that uses the WordPress platform (and you probably do if Nicely Done Sites built your site) you know that they take security seriously. In today’s day and age the more secure your website (or anything on the web) the better off you are but a major threat to WordPress has […]
What Is The Best Way To Avoid Being Hacked?
You lock your windows and you lock your doors. Your physical security is a big deal. Is your cyber security as big of a deal? If it is not, it should be. In the past we have detailed some of the tried and true methods to make your accounts online just a little bit safer […]
What Do I Need To Do To Secure My Ecommerce Site?
One of the most important considerations regarding an ecommerce website, if not the most important, is the security of the site. In today’s age where it seems like there have been so many data breaches that we’ve become numb to them it may seem like a daunting task to secure a website from malicious actors […]
How Did The Password Come To Be?
Last week the man who created the computer password, Dr. Fernando Corbató, passed away at the age of 93 due to complications from diabetes. We take passwords for granted as our generation has used them nearly all, if not all of our lives. It is second nature for us but it was obviously not always […]
A Good Reason To Change Your Passwords
Do you use the same password for anything that you used a decade ago? Some of you reading this will have certainly raised their hands. We have been over the benefits of secure passwords multiple times but it is also a good idea to change passwords every so often. Do you do that? Probably not […]
Why use Secure Passwords?
When you were given your login credentials to your website from Nicely Done Sites you probably noticed the password. It’s long and you don’t think there is any way that you will be able to remember it. Your first though it to change it to something more easily remembered but before you do that there […]